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Waxman Defeats Dingell For Coveted Chairmanship
California Rep. Henry Waxman on Thursday unseated Rep. John Dingell for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell, 82, of Michigan, had been the top Democrat on the panel for 28 years.
Budget Cuts Will Affect Enrollment At CSU
The nation's largest university system says huge budget cuts mean it won't be able to accept all eligible student applicants. The California State University traditionally has accepted every student with at least a B average. Now it is on the verge of raising its academic standards and pushing up its application deadlines. Those actions are expected to hurt low-income students with few academic choices.
Tom Daschle Expected To Head HHS
There are indications that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The transition team won't confirm that.
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Crossing Cultures In 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Slumdog Millionaire by director Danny Boyle follows an uneducated Indian boy who hits the jackpot on the Hindi version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. David Edelstein reviews.
'Milk' Screenwriter: Harvey Helped Me Come Out
Sean Penn stars in Gus Van Sant's biopic about an out gay politician who inspired a community; screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who grew up Mormon, says he was among those for whom Harvey Milk made a real difference.
'Twilight' Fans' Destination: Forks, Wash.
The teen vampire movie Twilight opens in theaters on Friday. The movie follows the best-selling series of romance-thriller novels, set in the small and rainy hamlet of Forks on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Despite its remoteness, the town has become a pilgrimage destination for readers from around the world.
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Senate Candidates Saturate Oregon Airwaves
If you’ve turned on your TV lately, you can’t miss a slew of political ads. If you live in Oregon, the airwaves are saturated with an especially nasty slugfest. Democrat Jeff Merkley is trying to unseat Republican Gordon Smith in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the nation. Correspondent Chris Lehman has more.
Measure 59: Tax Fairness or Impending Disaster?
Supporters of Measure 59 on this year’s Oregon ballot say it will end a practice of double taxation. Opponents mock it as tax fairness ... for millionaires. Both sides agree it will mean the state will lose more than a billion dollars of revenue. Correspondent Chris Lehman reports.
Measure 54: School Project on the Ballot
Nearly every public high school student has to take a civics class to graduate. That’s where you learn how government works. Some students at a Portland high school put their new-found knowledge into action. The result is Measure 54 on this year’s Oregon ballot. Correspondent Chris Lehman explains.
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In Search of the
As we grapple with a gyrating economy, hear daily and dire news of planet Earth and immerse ourselves in a contentious election of the next president, it’s a time of radical ferment, sudden change and deeply held, often polarized opinions...
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Localism
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November 2008
We all know that the world tends to operate cyclically — whether in weather patterns or popular fads...
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Climbing The Mountains
Tuned In
October 2008
I have long said that the Creator must not have been thinking about radio when the mountains that surround us were raised...
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